Alexander F. Sklyar

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Alexander Felixovich Sklyar
Александр Феликсович Скляр
Aleksandr F. Skliar na festivale Nashestvie-2008.jpg
Alexander Sklyar on stage of Nashestviye-2008
Background information
Born (1958-03-07) March 7, 1958 (age 66)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Russia)
GenresAlternative rock, russian chanson, Bard Rock, indie rock, jazz-rock
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1979–present
Website www.afsklyar.ru (in Russian)

Alexander Felixovich Sklyar [a] (born March 7, 1958) is a Russian rock musician, radio presenter, actor and author. Sklyar, who in the 1980s and early 1990s fronted the popular punk metal band Va-bank, later moved into the traditional Russian singer-songwriter territory covering the vast stylistic spectrum (Alexander Vertinsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonid Utyosov, Mark Bernes). [1] [2]

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Biography

Sklyar was born in Moscow, to Felix Sidorovich, a physicist, and his journalist wife Irina Viktorovna, a one time Rabotnitsa magazine second editor. In 1985 Sklyar graduated from the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations and joined the Soviet embassy in North Korea as a minor official. Upon return later this year he became a member of the band Tsentr, fronted by Vasily Shumov (whom he played with in 1979 as a guitarist in 777, the band's first incarnation) and took part in the recording the Priznaki zhizni (Signs of Life) LP. [2]

In 1991 Sklyar debuted as a children's writer with the book Petrovich and Potapum in the Magic Labyrinth, co-authored by Roman Kanushkin. The same year he started his own rock radio series Utchites plavat (Learn to Swim) on Radio Maximum (it later re-surfaced on Station-2000). In 1995 he formed the duo Botsman i brodyaga (The Boatswain and the Tramp) with Garik Sukachov of the Brigada S fame. 1998 saw Sklyar going solo with the album Po napravleniyu k tango (Moving Closer to Tango), starting to experiment with different retro styles of popular Russian music. In 2001–2009 Sklyar appeared in seven Russian feature films and tried himself as a TV film and music programs' presenter on TV3 and TV Kultura. [2]

Political activity

In January 2015 in the Internet appeared a video with a song recorded to support Russian separatists in the war on East Ukraine. Alexander F. Sklyar, as well as Ivan Okhlobystin and Garik Sukachov took part in it. [3]

In April and May 2022, Sklyar participated in a series of concerts organized in order to support the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [4]

In January 2023 Ukraine imposed sanctions on him for promoting Russia during the invasion. [5]

Discography

Aleksander Sklyar at the "Red Square" Book Festival (2017) Aleksander Sklyar 2017.jpg
Aleksander Sklyar at the "Red Square" Book Festival (2017)

With Va-Bank

Solo

Collaborations

Notes

  1. ↑ Russian: Александр Феликсович Скляр, romanized: Aleksandr Feliksovich Sklyar

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References

  1. ↑ "Alexander Felixovich Sklyar". www.peoples.ru. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Alexander Felixovich Sklyar". www.rusactors.ru. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Охлобистін і Сукачов пропіарилися на «сатанинських обстрілах» Донецька. ВІДЕО (in Ukrainian). ТаблоID. Ukrayinska Pravda. 19.01.2015
  4. ↑ "Гастроли патриотов. Как кремлевские эксперты и шоу-бизнес зарабатывают на концертах "Za Россию"". BBC (in Russian). May 11, 2022.
  5. ↑ "ALONG THE SANCTIONED PERSONS SKLYAR Alexander Feliksovich" . Retrieved May 21, 2023.
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